I drove out into the country with my twin 8-year-old daughters (yeah, the insane ones) Friday evening. I do love getting out with my camera, and I love my little girls. They brought their little, pink camera along so they could get some photos too.
Somewhere out west of Wheatland, N.D., I ran across an old barn. I gots me a soft spot for an old barn. And we stopped, and I snagged some pics. Problem is, I can’t decide whether this should be in color or black-and-white. What do you think?
Black and white or color? I can’t decide!
In the meantime, here are some other photos I snagged this weekend (Click on an image below to see a larger view).
This is the same barn as above (the one I can’t decide if it looks better in B&W or color), but from the other end.
These bins aren’t too far from Hawley, Minn.
This is in rural Clay or Norman County, Minn. It’s probably Clay.
This one makes me think of the word “lump.”
Friend of mine named Joel Andersen. Playing the mandolin while performing in Twin Valley, Minn., with his wife, Kathy.
as a free lance photographer i would go with balsck and white it adds to the look plus that shot would look better in black and white do to the age of the building
and the location
Color!
Looks like you’re going for texture over hue, so I say black and white! That also compliments the age character of the barn. Of course, I’m a photo hoarder…so I would keep both on file!
Also, if you’re of the photo altering sort, you might want to add some hightlight or glow to get that star shining through the clouds a bit. That may also brighten the building.
I know next to nothing about photography Shane..but I like the color version.
Hey everyone. Thanks so much for the feedback. I’m starting to lean B&W. I really love the blue sky, and if I had more yellow in the building to complement that blue, I’d be tempted to go color. But I just haven’t been able to get the yellow into the pic like I want despite reworking it in Photoshop. But, Missy, yes, i’m def. planning to keep the original RAW (NEF) file!
I see the building more in the image with color. The softness of the black and white does look good, but in order to capture the age of the barn, “antiquing” the photograph would give that result without taking all the color away.
As far as I am concerned I prefer monochrome. Color has it’s purpose. When the idea is to make the viewer see the grand scheme in an image, I would use color, even HDR. But when it comes to focussing the attention to a specific aspect (be it emotion, wrinkles on the skin, a barn on the prairie…), I use monochrome. This is very well demonstrated in your first two side-by-side pictures. Monochrome draws a person to look at the barn/house but the color takes one to the sky and sun.
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